On Martin Heidegger

Hannah Arendts erste Briefe an Karl Jaspers und Martin Heidegger: Freundschaft, Versöhnung und Wiederaufbau einer gemeinsamen Welt," in Nach dem Krieg! - Nach dem Exil?  Erste Briefe/First Letters 1945-1950

from Text und Kritik (2012) ed. D. Garz and D. Kettler


Bearing Logs on Our Shoulders: Reconciliation, Non-Reconciliation, and the Building of a Common World

from Theory & Event (2011)

On her first return visit to Germany in 1950, Hannah Arendt went walking in the Black Forest with Martin Heidegger. They discussed revenge, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Upon her return to New York, Arendt began her diary of thoughts, her Denktagebuch. The first seven pages of Arendt’s Denktagebuch argue that only reconciliation — and not revenge or forgiveness — is one essential example of political judgment. The connection between reconciliation and judgment means that only reconciliation, and not revenge or forgiveness, can respond to wrongs in a way that fosters the political project of building and preserving a common world.


The Question Concerning Technik by Martin Heidegger

Translated by Roger Berkowitz and Philippe Nonet (2006)

This is an unpublished translation of Martin Heidegger's Die Frage Nach der Technik. It was done by Philippe Nonet and Roger Berkowitz for our own purposes.


The Origin of the Work of Art by Martin Heidegger

Translated by Roger Berkowitz and Philippe Nonet (2006)

This is an unpublished translation of Martin Heidegger's Die Ursprung des Kunstwerkes. It was done by Philippe Nonet and Roger Berkowitz for our own purposes.



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